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Article: Charlie Wilson's War

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December 19, 2007
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Charlie Wilson's War

Of Fun, Funds and Fundamentalists

IN THIS SEASON of dour political films, Mike Nichols' Beltway-based satire about U.S. involvement in the Soviet-Afghanistan war is a welcome and entertaining diversion that still gets a few well-placed kicks in. It helps that Charlie Wilson's War is set in the 1980s, amid Cold War anxieties that have long since passed. Also in the pluscolumn: a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story, adapted from George Crile's book by top TV scribe Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing), bursting with colorful characters and snappy dialogue.

Don't be fooled by the perfunctory, patriotic opening set in 1989, in which U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) gets an ...

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